Garrett Hardin

Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences and Environmental Studies Program	Phone:	(805) 893-2968

Garrett Hardin is an ecologist, best known for his controversial beliefs about population control. Hardin became famous through his writing, specifically through a 1968 essay, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” Science, 162, now reprinted in over 100 anthologies and widely accepted as a fundamental contribution to ecology, population theory, economics and political science. Hardin's work, especially that on population, immigration, and abortion, has had many practical effects on public politics and debate, as well as on biological science itself. Since his retirement from the Santa Barbara campus in 1978, he has devoted himself to writing and speaking.

Education:B.A. University of Chicago
Ph.D. Stanford University

Awards:
Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science with his 1993 book, Living Within Limits: Economics and Population Taboos, Oxford University Press.

1997 Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award, honoring one retired faculty member of the nine campus University of California system for continuing scholarly productivity.

Selected Publications:
The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia, 1999.

The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons, 1995.

"The Tragedy of the Unmanaged Commons, Trends in Ecology and Evolution," BioScience, 2 (5), 1994

Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos, Oxford University Press, 1993.

Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent, 1985.

"Living on a Lifeboat," BioScience, 24 (10), 1974

"The Tragedy of the Commons," Science, 162 (1243-1248), 1968